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Event 1 – Rev. Ch. 8 V 7

The year at the time of writing this is 2006. Imagine for a moment that each year for the next ten years more and more Methane is released in to the atmosphere.

Every year, more heat is trapped by the Methane resulting in more Methane being released and so on. This brings more violent storms.

During thunder storms water droplets start to freeze in the head of the thundercloud to form hail. When Methane is present, water freezes at a slightly higher temperature than usual.

The ice forms a lattice type structure, drawing the Methane in like a sponge and locking it in. Read More / Watch Video »

Experts say methane emissions from the Arctic have risen by almost one-third in just five years, and that sharply rising temperatures are to blame.

Scientists have recorded a massive spike in the amount of a powerful greenhouse gas seeping from Arctic permafrost, in a discovery that highlights the risks of a dangerous climate tipping point.

Experts say methane emissions from the Arctic have risen by almost one-third in just five years, and that sharply rising temperatures are to blame. Read More / Watch Video »

Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed.

Methane is about 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping solar heat.

The findings come from measurements of carbon fluxes around the north of Russia, led by Igor Semiletov from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
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Scientists fear that improper fuel extraction at Lake Kivu in Africa could trigger a massive release of carbon dioxide from its depths, potentially suffocating the two million people living on its shore.

The lake lying on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of three known “exploding lakes”. Its waters are permanently stratified, which mean that the deep cold layers are almost never mixing with the hotter and lighter layers. As a result the deep stratum has accumulated large quantities of salts, nutrients and dissolved gases like methane and carbon dioxide. Read More / Watch Video »

Washington, Sep 3 : Melting permafrost in arctic regions, triggered by global warming, will release underground methane. Once released, methane would speed up global warming by trapping the earth’s heat radiation about 20 times more efficiently than the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

An MIT paper concludes that methane deposits trapped under ocean may already be escaping through vents in the sea floor at a much faster rate than previously believed.

Some scientists have associated the release, both gradual and fast, of subsurface ocean methane with climate change of the past and future. Read More / Watch Video »

Methane bubbles observed by sonar, escape from sea bed as temperatures rise

Scientists say they have evidence that the powerful greenhouse gas methane is escaping from the Arctic sea bed.
Researchers say this could be evidence of a predicted positive feedback effect of climate change.

As temperatures rise, the sea bed grows warmer and frozen water crystals in the sediment break down, allowing methane trapped inside them to escape. Read More / Watch Video »

PARIS (AFP) – New studies have warned of triggers in the natural environment, including a greenhouse-gas timebomb in Siberia and Canada, that could viciously amplify global warming.

Thawing subarctic tundra could unleash billions of tonnes of gases that have been safely stored in frosty soil, while oceans and forests are becoming less able to suck carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, according to papers presented this weekend.
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British scientists have discovered hundreds more methane “plumes” bubbling up from the Arctic seabed, in an area to the west of the Norwegian island of Svalbard.

It is the second time in a week that scientists have reported methane emissions from the Arctic.

Methane is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and the latest findings from two separate teams of scientists suggest it is being released in significant amounts from within the Arctic Circle. Read More / Watch Video »

Researchers say evidence suggests that the frozen seabed is perforated and is starting to leak methane, but other scientists urge caution.

Scientists claim to have discovered evidence for large releases of methane into the atmosphere from frozen seabed stores off the northern coast of Siberia.

A large injection of the gas – which is 21 times more potent as an atmospheric heat trap than carbon dioxide – has long been cited by climate scientists as the potential trigger for runaway global warming.
The warming caused by the gas could destabilise permafrost further, they fear, leading to yet more methane release. Read More / Watch Video »

STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is leaking from the permafrost under the Siberian seabed, a researcher on an international expedition in the region told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter on Saturday.

“The permafrost now has small holes. We have found elevated levels of methane above the water surface and even more in the water just below.

It is obvious that the source is the seabed,” Oerjan Gustafsson, the Swedish leader of the International Siberian Shelf Study, told the newspaper.
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